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Was the early church being tyrannical when they met daily, Acts 246, or do you see it as a temporary

aspect of the inauguration? Great question. No, I don't think it was tyrannical. I think, you know,

for one, you had another level of authority that we just don't have today. You had apostles of

Christ. For the record, the word apostle, it literally translates as just a messenger or

erinder. Erinder. So it's just, you know, so my point is the apostle, you know, all human

authority is vested authority. And apostles would be no different. So the apostle doesn't have

any inherent authority in and of themselves. So here's the question. When you're measuring

the authority of an apostle, an apostle is just an errantender. So the question is, who sent them on an errand? That's how you gauge what degree of

authority they have. Right. So if it's an apostle of the church, which there were in the book

of Acts, that's what Barnabas was. Barnabas is an apostle of the church. Right. He's sent down

to the church at Antioch to see what's going on there,

see if the doctrine is sound and those kinds of things. And he's sent as an erranter from the church at Jerusalem.

And so he's not an apostle of Christ, an eyewitness of the resurrected Lord and commissioned by Christ and endowed with authority.

But he is still an apostle of sorts.

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